Low-frequency electroacupuncture and physical exercise decrease high muscle sympathetic nerve activity in polycystic ovary syndrome

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Stener Victorin, Elisabet ^a   Jedel, Elizabeth ^b   Janson, Per Olof ^c   Sverrisdottir, Yrsa Bergmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Insulin resistance; Metabolic syndrome; Polycystic ovary syndrome; Sympathetic nerve activity; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PERONEAL NERVE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049100394     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00197.2009     Document Type: Article

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